Had a cat that enjoyed night hunts. His joy was to bring mice and rats in through the cat door, let them loose and watch me go nuts. Other than that he was a great cat.
My then 10 year old daughter brought a juvenile black cat home and over my strident objections her mother let her keep it. Occasionally daughter would wake in the morning with Kitty standing on the floor in her bedroom waiting for her to rise then releasing the stunned mouse which crawled away as a stunned crittur would do. Kitty meowed at daughter louder and louder until the mouse got out of sight then found it and repeated the process. D this time grabbed a T shirt from the end of the bed and got the mouse, took it outside and deposited it in the otherwise empty garbage can. Trash pickup carried it off that evening. Kitty seemed satisfied that D had learned the lesson and did not repeat. ne benefit of the procedure is that D, now grown up with her own family is not afraid of even large rats or snakes. They ara just obnoxious critters easy to dispose of by killing (rats) or relocation.